God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do you believe in that Infinite, good Providence working in and through you? If you believe that this Omnipresent One is present… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Love makes no distinction between man and man, between an Aryan and a Mlechchha, between a Brâhmana and a Pariah, nor even… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
